Once Shit Party was completed, David vowed never
to animate again. Shortly after this, he began work
on Herman, The Legal Labrador, a short epic which
would end up taking over two years from script to screen,
leaving David with a great deal of pride and an unfortunate
twitch in his left eye.

When not recording dog puke noises into a microphone,
David writes and draws a comic book called Nakedfella
Comics, manages an online cultural journal/scam,
McGinlay's
Internet Possibility, and does freelance
design and animation, his recent favourites being a
CD cover for Cumbersome
Records and a titles sequence for TV's The
Panel.

An enigma wrapped in a riddle, sitting at a Macintosh.
Jeremy won an AFI award for his 1989 animation Picture
Start, which he won't show to anybody. He has since
worked on stuff for the Australian Children's Television
Foundation series, Lift Off, and produced shitloads
of student work in his capacity as lecturer and senior
supervisor at RMIT's Centre
for Animation & Interactive Media. When
I, his ex-student, asked him to produce Herman,
Jeremy asked, "What will I have to do?" David
explained that a producer's job is to be "a mover
and shaker". Despite Jeremy's refusal to move or
shake, he has proven invaluable as a guide to the art
of animation and the psychology of filmmaking. Translated,
this means he points out where David fucked up and tells
him to get back to work.

Jeremy did so well at this, David made him Executive
Producer as well because why the hell not.

Jacob Zhivov
Production Manager, Sound Recordist

Jake recently completed the Honours year of Bachelor
of Information Management and Systems at Monash University.
He is also currently employed at Monash as an assistant
lecturer. He served as production manager on numerous
theatrical productions during his time at Melbourne
High School. Jake once had his photo taken with World
Wrestling Entertainment head man Vince McMahon
and "wrestler" Stacy Keibler. You would think
I could pull up a better picture of him.

Adam Wajnberg
Creative Consultant

What does this title mean? It just means that Adam
helped massage some life into his character by replacing
the somewhat stilted lines with others that suited him
better.

Once a lowly podiatrist, Jim tired of checking people's
feet for bunions and decided to turn his skills to a
much more challenging and lucrative pursuit: 3D animation.
Jim now works as a lowly production manager in a lowly
3D
animation studio. Jim constantly worries
about selling out to "the man", but he upholds
his sacred black heritage by keeping an active interest
in Culture
Jamming.

Chris likes clouds, lazing and a few other things.
Chris doesn't like cooked apricots of any description
but enjoys them raw. Chris presses buttons lots and
sits in darkened rooms looking at monitors - he enjoys
this. When Chris exits after eight hours of that he
is usually blinded by the light outside for about one
minute, two minutes if it's a really bright day.

Not as corpulent as Fat Albert, not as queenie as Richard
Simmons. In fact, Tim has lost a lot of weight since
this photo was taken. Tim has no awards for publicity
excellence, but boasts a significant role in a number
of front page exposés on resource wastage by
the Bracks Labor government, thanks to his work for
Victorian state opposition MP David Davis. Tim is currently
working as an independent consultant on international
trade matters.

Scott Pollard
Chief Model Maker

Scott mutilated a toy dog to make this lovely Herman
toy. It has pants on (not visible here) and it barks
and walks around. Scott is probably Australia's only
professional Dalek operator. Despite this, Scott doesn't
get laid very often.

Larry Boxshall and Ben Hellwig
Very Special Associate Producers

Larry and Ben are not credited as such in the film
itself. Why? Because they got their titles by performing
a very special service for the film AFTER its completion:
presenting it to a rapturous (?) audience at the 2005
San
Diego Comic-Con!

The Comic-Con's Independent Film Festival picked Herman
to close their Sunday animation session. However, their
rules require that a member of the production team be
present for the screening so they might say a few words
and answer questions. Unfortunately, prior commitments
(and, yes, the fact that a last-minute plane ticket
to the States costs mucho, mucho dinero) meant I couldn't
go.

Thankfully, these two stalwart gentlemen, who only
knew me as the guy who comes into their comic shop and
never buys anything, agreed to take some time out of
their San Diego Con experience to be the film's "Associate
Producers", and, reportedly, did a fine job at
it. Their Aussie accents put it over, and the free "Herman"
comics they gave out sealed the deal. Good work, fellas!